Rightfully Returning Your Lost Assets
Daily, the amount of lost assets increases worldwide. Families and heirs of lost assets deserve their assets. The DSL & Associates team is dedicated to returning lost assets. Our extensive worldwide research capabilities ensure the certification of ownership for families, corporations, heirs, and lawyers is an effective and efficient experience.
Our Services
What are Lost Assets?
The term “lost assets” refers to accounts in financial institutions and companies that have had no activity generated or contact with the owner for one year or longer. Common forms of lost assets include savings or checking accounts, stocks, uncashed dividends or payroll checks, refunds, traveler’s checks, trust distributions, money orders or gift certificates (in some states) that have not been redeemed, insurance payments or refunds, and life insurance policies, annuities, certificates of deposit, customer over payments, utility security deposits, mineral royalty payments, and contents of safe deposit boxes.
What are Lost Assets?
The term “lost assets” refers to accounts in financial institutions and companies that have had no activity generated or contact with the owner for one year or longer. Common forms of lost assets include savings or checking accounts, stocks, uncashed dividends or payroll checks, refunds, traveler’s checks, trust distributions, money orders or gift certificates (in some states) that have not been redeemed, insurance payments or refunds, and life insurance policies, annuities, certificates of deposit, customer over payments, utility security deposits, mineral royalty payments, and contents of safe deposit boxes.
How Do We Help Heirs?
DSL & Associates, Inc. assists heirs in the following ways:
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Locating and directing heirs to the proper legal format to collect their lost assets
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Prepare the proper documentation to register and defend to the entity for the claimant settlement
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Support to our claimants to help recover lost assets
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Professional referral for legal representative
Benefits of Using a Private Investigation Firm To Represent You
Private investigators help people recover assets they would not have known existed. When considering representation when filing for the return of lost assets, it’s beneficial to work with professionals who are familiar with the governing laws where the lost assets are held. These experts are familiar with all the forms that need to be filed, the proper identification, probate laws, court properties, co-claimants and joint claims, beneficiaries, unredacted wills, death certificates, judicial authority, requirements for claiming personal assets and business assets, etc. Hiring a professional ensures you receive all the lost assets you are entitled to and your claim is handled with efficiency.
Heir Tracing
It is not uncommon for assets of a deceased person to go unnoticed. Heirs are not even may not even be aware there is an existing inheritance to recover. Typically required by trust and estate officers or by attorneys, heir searches can be complex. Possible heirs need to provide required legal documentation to prove and establish their identity and relation to a family member who may be alive or deceased. Heir searches may also be conducted on behalf of guardians, executors, private fiduciaries, conservators, and trustees. Searches for heirs can take as little as a day or can become quite complicated taking an incredible amount of research on the Internet, in courthouses, libraries, census records, and birth, adoption, death, marriage, or divorce records. Investigators are not only researchers they become genealogists.